# Cricut Joy: Quick & Simple DIY — Cards, labels, stickers & more

> Companion app for Cricut Joy machines for quick DIY projects. (iPhone/iPad app by Cricut, Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cricut-joy-quick-and-simple-diy/id1516512746 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cricut, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/749471887)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.55/5 from 11,178 App Store ratings · 55 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 95 MB
- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Released: 2020-06-22
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cricut-joy-quick-and-simple-diy/id1516512746/reviews.md

## What is Cricut Joy?

Make something fun or functional in 15 minutes or less with this companion app for Cricut Joy smart cutting machines. Think simple, single-material DIY projects like cards, labels, stickers & iron-on transfers. No learning curve – just jump in and start making!

Bust out the perfect card in minutes. Browse by occasion or design your own! Make it special by adding a personal message. Mix & match Cricut Insert Card or Cutaway Card materials of your choice for stunning designs.

Create pro-looking labels in just a few taps – just choose size, shape, style, font & color in the guided design experience. Or design, cut & apply a custom sticker in minutes.

NOTE: This app only works with Cricut Joy machines. To create more complex projects or to work with unconventional materials, see full-featured Cricut Design Space app. 

New to Cricut? Welcome! To use this companion Cricut Joy app, first activate your new machine at cricut.com/setup.

Existing members with a Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker machines? Use the Cricut Design Space app. 

WHAT CAN YOU MAKE?
1. Insert Cards
Create the perfect card at a moment’s notice. Choose or create your own design and play with contrasting colors to make it special. You can even add stunning foil accents if you have the Cricut Joy Foil Transfer Kit. Then tell Cricut Joy to make it!

2. Cutaway Cards
Create stunning, custom cards every time with Cutaway Cards. Simply adhere your favorite stand-out backer, cut personalized messages in any font or design, weed away cutouts, and voila — custom cards for every occasion.

3. Quick Labels
Make labels for spice jars, a kitchen pantry, playroom, office & more. Just select one of the professionally designed label styles, size it, add text, choose a font & color, then tell your Cricut Joy to cut. 

4. Vinyl Stickers & Decals
Decorate water bottles, notebooks, electronics, windows, walls ... you name it. Choose from a library of ready-to-use images or upload your own, tell your Cricut Joy to cut, peel, then stick! It’s that easy.

5. Iron-On & Infusible Ink Heat Transfers
Design team jerseys, reunion T-shirts, bachelorette tote bags, or whatever you dream up. Find or upload an image, type out text, or create a design that uses both. Tell Cricut Joy to cut it out, then follow the instructions to complete the heat transfer. 

6. Paper Crafts
Make simple but spectacular gift tags, cupcake toppers, party place cards & more. Design, cut & assemble in just a few steps — and if you have the Cricut Joy Foil Transfer Kit, it’s easy to add stunning foil accents.

FEATURES
• 1000+ greeting card designs
• 23+ professionally designed Quick Label shapes
• 70+ curated fonts*, including Serif, San Serif, Decorative, Stencil & Draw
• Edit colors and font styles
• 80,000+ image library*
• Add text, images, or shapes to design
• Easily position, resize & wrap text
• See changes real time
• Two-finger pinch to zoom in or out
• Step-by-step assembly instructions 
• Auto-save projects
• Upload your own SVG files 
• Setup & activate machine right from app

WHAT IS CRICUT JOY?
"OMG, it's so cute!” – Wired
“One of my favorite new crafting gadgets.” – Today.com
“I’m obsessed.” – Better Homes and Gardens
“Does the Cricut Joy spark joy? Undoubtedly.” – Tom's Guide
“This gadget is gloriously addictive” – Financial Review

Cricut Joy is a smart little cutting & writing machine that makes it easy to personalize, organize & customize your every day. 

- Cuts popular materials perfectly. Ideal for making cards, vinyl decals, iron-on transfers & more. Also cuts materials you already have, like construction paper.
- Writes & draws flawlessly. Perfect for penning a personal monogram, inscribing an invitation, or labeling just about anything. 

NEED HELP? WE’RE HERE FOR YOU.
Chat, Call or Email Cricut Member Care http://help.cricut.com 

THE FINE PRINT
Use of the Cricut Joy app is subject to terms at cricut.com/legal. (You know how those lawyers are.)

## Key features

- Create custom cards
- Design quick labels
- Make vinyl stickers
- Iron-on heat transfers
- Paper crafts with foil accents
- Access 1000+ card designs
- Utilize 80,000+ image library

## What do users think of Cricut Joy?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚀 Intuitive app
- 🚀 Simplified for Cricut Joy
- 👍 Great for beginners
- 👍 Portable and convenient
- 👍 Helpful for quick projects
- 👍 Exclusive to Cricut Joy

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔒 Limited functionality without subscription
- 👎 Restrictive design options
- 👎 Inconsistent with Cricut Design Space
- 👎 Lacks key features

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when trying to edit projects
- Unable to change material size or settings
- Keyboard issues when renaming images
- Trouble connecting and syncing with Cricut Joy
- Inconsistent performance and frequent errors

**Most requested features**

- More design options and customization
- Ability to edit projects after creation
- Better integration with Cricut Design Space
- More free content and fonts
- Improved documentation and tutorials
- Ability to create cards and multi-layer projects

## Recent user reviews (10 of 55)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cricut-joy-quick-and-simple-diy/id1516512746/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Great app, but different from Design Space

*2023-10-28*

I love using this app for doing projects on my Cricut Joy, but I mainly use this app just for cards. This app is really easy to use compared to Cricut Design Space. However, on Cricut Design Space there are a lot more options when you search within a project (for example: search animals, and a lot more shows up  on Cricut Design Space then Cricut Joy app). I do love how this app has everything made for Cricut Joy exclusively. It’s easier to just select things that you know will be compatible with your machine rather than try to figure out on the other app, whether it will work for you or not. It also is easier because when you are making a card or cutting out an object, it will show you what will come out and what will stay on which is really helpful for cutting things with my Cricut Joy. The main complaint that I have had for cricket design, space, and Cricut Joy app is the access plus. It is super annoying if you don’t have it, and will limit your ability to create things that you enjoy to create. And also, I do think it is green, more strict by the day. Less and less things are free now, just FYI. I hope you enjoy using this app overall it is pretty great there just a few of the minor issues that I stated. I still enjoy using it despite that. I hope this review was helpful.

### 2/5 — There’s potential here…

*2023-10-25*

This app is required for using a Cricut joy machine, but it leaves much to be desired. It does not interact with the Cricut design space app, and is overall very rudimentary. You cannot create mock designs with multiple colors. The app crashes if you try to change certain size of parameters of images. There’s no way to change the overall size of a design without cancelling and starting new. Another frustrating part is that you have to create a design under the category of vinyl, iron-on, etc. If you like your design and want to turn it into a different category item, you have to start completely from scratch. This app is frustrating, but has potential if the user face becomes easier with more dynamic design settings.

### 3/5 — This app needs some work

*2023-08-19*

I purchased the Cricut Joy back in February, and was using the regular Cricut design space when I discovered that this app was available for my specific model. I downloaded it and was pleased that the sizing was already fit for my Cricut Joy. I would’ve appreciated an email saying this was available since the Cricut company can tell which model a person has. Would’ve saved me a lot of time instead of trying to design cards that would not fit this machine. Then when I did start using the app I like some of the features, but it is very limited. The graphics I am able to add usually never correspond with the searches I make, the text feature is so glitchy and my text boxes always get messed up, and the app crashes constantly and won’t save my work. Yesterday I had a card all made and the inside was all written out and then the text box decided to condense and widen across the page so it was completely off the side margins and then it crashed so I lost all of my text. Please do some work on this app and give us an update!!!

### 1/5 — App crash - non stop

*2023-06-25*

Just bought a cricut joy - because I wanted to quick and easy use from my iPad while having a portable machine. 
So I bought the machine, new case, and the label starter kit. Upon launching the app, while at a client, I tried to do the vinyl label starter. As soon as I thought the screen to adjust the size, app crashes. This happened over and over. So - I deleted the app, restarted the ipad, redownload the app - same thing crash, Crash, CRASH.

This app is totally useless and defeats buying a protable machine. 
I wasted 45 minutes of billable time at a client’s home where I was trying to label containers. I couldn’t bill for that time and now have a very expensive paper weight. I should have looked at the app version history first - there’s been no updates for over 5 months. 
I called to get tech support but the wait was over 1.5 hours. I emailed support and the auto response said it could be multiple days before I heard back….I’m guessing that reply will basically be automated and non-helpful. That’s TBD.

I give it a week and then I return the machine.  Oh - and the 3-pack of pens that was included, 1 of the pens was half empty. No quality control happening with this company right now.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We are so sorry to hear you are having issues with your app crashing and have not been able to contact us. We would love to assist you with this if you can try contacting us again at cricut.com/contact.

### 5/5 — Fun for all

*2023-04-02*

Love my Cricut Joy I literally get lost for hours and designing new and cool iron Ons for everyone and everything. From crosses to fairies to puzzle pieces with hearts my Cricut Joy never lets me down from small to large. This little machine is mighty banners too bumper stickers.
Iron Ons to label making the project is mine for the taking. From 6 inches to 20 feet long my Cricut Joy can do it all if you don’t have one get one perfect gift for that somebody on your guest list that’s hard to shop for this will keep them thrilled with new ideas forever can’t go wrong

### 3/5 — Love the app but….

*2023-02-15, version 4.6.5*

I love the app BUT I don’t like the fact that when I go to upload  an image it doesn’t show the picture and when I go to rename the image the keyboard is blinking and I can’t type. One of my phones it works on and is fine and this phone it doesn’t. Just strange

### 5/5 — New cricut user !

*2023-01-01, version 4.6.4*

I just got a cricut joy for Christmas and I’m so excited . I love this app because I know everything on it will work with my cricut . The design space app is a little confusing for me so I am sooo thankful for this app 🙂🙃

### 1/5 — So limiting! Would not recommend Cricut!

*2022-12-30, version 4.6.4*

I bought a Cricut Joy to be able to make two simple projects: mason jar lid labels and iron on labels with my kids’ names. The former seems entirely impossible to make. I want to use their Smart Label Writable Paper, and that material isn’t even an option on the Design Your Own tab. I am an experience Silhouette user but thought I would use a Joy for small easy projects. However, it is so incredibly frustrating to use. I would not recommend at all. 
Additionally, do not purchase the product at all unless you are prepared to spend the $10/month for Cricut Access, it’s pointless to attempt to use it with out it.

### 1/5 — Issues issues issues

*2022-12-22, version 4.6.4*

Can’t create/save custom cards. the save option for the project when using symmetric corners. And that’s when the app doesn’t crash when trying to bring in a free image basically you have to pay for this if you want it to work otherwise the free version is just full of bugs issues and is pretty much not operational to creating cards as simple as a thank you. and what’s concerning is the app is still better than the website and it doesn’t work well… very frustrating and disappointing when you invest so much time not to mention money to create fun projects.

### 1/5 — App works okay. Poor subscription & customer service.

*2022-12-12, version 4.6.3*

The “free” version (after you’ve paid for a machine) works okay. It has a few options. If you want access to the rest of the options, you must pay $10 per month. 

After paying for Cricut Access I could not access it. I contacted Apple who told me to contact Cricut. Cricut customer service was very unhelpful and fairly rude. After not being able to find my information at first, being put on hold several times, repeating my information many times, and a few emails, I was told it was not their concern and to contact Apple. The customer service representative at Cricut was rude. I provided proof of purchase and payment and was still told it, “is not our concern to do that” - no help or resolution to gain access to the subscription. 

An online chat only results in you needing to call them which, in my case, only lead to an hour of wasted time and frustration.

## Frequently asked questions about Cricut Joy

### What can I make with the Cricut Joy app?

You can create a variety of simple DIY projects, including custom cards, quick labels for organization, vinyl stickers and decals, iron-on heat transfers for apparel, and paper crafts like gift tags. The app supports single-material projects for ease of use.

### What machines is this app compatible with?

This app is specifically designed to work with Cricut Joy smart cutting machines. It is not compatible with other Cricut machines like Cricut Explore or Cricut Maker; for those, you should use the full-featured Cricut Design Space app.

### Is this app free to use?

Yes, this companion app for Cricut Joy machines is free to download and use. There are no mentioned costs associated with the app itself, though you will need a Cricut Joy machine and materials to create projects.

### How do I get started with the app?

If you are new to Cricut, you will need to activate your new Cricut Joy machine at cricut.com/setup first. Once your machine is set up, you can download and use this companion app to start making projects.

### Can I create complex designs with this app?

This app is intended for quick and simple DIY projects using single materials. For more complex designs or to work with a wider range of materials, you should use the full-featured Cricut Design Space app.

## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 4.6.7 — 2023-11-13

Time to say goodbye.  
We loved this little app, too — but support will be ending soon. Download our Design Space app to keep using your Cricut Joy machine.

### 4.6.6 — 2023-09-26

No release notes.

### 4.6.5 — 2023-01-06

Introducing Cricut Joy Cutaway Cards - create stunning, custom cards every time without losing the little details that matter. Design your card with full freedom, then simply adhere your favorite stand-out backer, cut personalized messages in any font or design, weed away cutouts, and voila — custom cards for every occasion.

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